Read the latest KPTZ Spotlight for February 16-28. Many of our program hosts provide specifics about what’s planned for this half month. If you’re not already a Spotlight subscriber, you’re invited to join our Mailing List. See KPTZ’s current Weekly On-Air Schedule and Daily Program Schedule.
(Airdate: February 13, 2026) Commissioner Greg Brotherton and Jim Burke are joined this week by
Recompete Coordinator Molly Pringle and, representing Clallam County, Angi Klahn to talk about the first year of The 35 Million RECOMPETE Grant that aims to get the Prime Age Employment Group (ages 25-54 yrs,. old ) and others. The Recompete Pilot Program is a federally-funded initiative to create and connect people to living-wage, local jobs in Clallam and Jefferson Counties. Listeners can find out more by going to https://www.recompetewa.org/
and https://olympicconnect.org/.
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by Melody Sky Weaver, Community Services Director for the City of Port Townsend, and by Katy Goodman, PT’s Arts & Culture Coordinator. We learned all about Soundcheck, our local upcoming arts festival. More information may be found at here: https://ptcreativedistrict.org/soundcheck/
(Airdate: February 5, 2026 – The Discovery of Electricity)
(Airdate: February 11, 2026) Please join Nature Now as we get ready for Spring by learning more about butterflies! Host Debaran Kelso speaks with Washington Butterfly Association members Regina Johnson and Dan Dunphy about our native butterflies.
(Airdate: February 10, 2026) Meet Nicholas Verrochi, who’s in the midst of a four-month haul-out in Port Townsend’s famed boatyard. Six of the finest shipwrights around and a raft of project volunteers, are fixing the rot, planks, frames and centerline that’s holding the 104 year old historic wooden boat, Argonaut II, together. Nicholas lives aboard, and hosts charters around our beautiful San Juan Islands and beyond. From corporate cruiser to missionary vessel to tugboat, Argonaut II has seen it all, and now Nicholas is dedicating himself to bringing her back to glory.
(Airdate: February 10, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang province in the oasis of Turfan and we’re touring the sites outside of town.The first site is the area’s most famous. It’s the eroded red slopes of the Flaming Mountains that begin just north of town. On a hot summer day the surface temperature on these mountains exceeds 80 degrees Celsius, hot enough to fry an egg or a monk. Which brings us to another story….
(Airdate: February 3, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang province in the town of Turfan, and we’re visiting the Emin Minaret at the east edge of town. The minaret was built in 1777 by the local ruler, Emin Khoja, as a monument to Uyghur support for the Qing dynasty and its dispute with other nomads to the north. Translated into current lingo, the minaret stands as a shining symbol of the centuries-old friendship between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese…
(Airdate: February 9, 2026) KPTZ’s Taylor Clark got to learn more about the Gatheringplace, a Port Townsend non-profit dedicated to promoting opportunity, awareness, and inclusion for adults with developmental and other disabilities. Our guests were Linda Ferris, the founder and executive director, and board member Steve Kemper. Radio Dog Sage sampled the “Yummy” hand made biscuits.
(Airdate: February 3, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang province in the town of Turfan, and we’re visiting the Emin Minaret at the east edge of town. The minaret was built in 1777 by the local ruler, Emin Khoja, as a monument to Uyghur support for the Qing dynasty and its dispute with other nomads to the north. Translated into current lingo, the minaret stands as a shining symbol of the centuries-old friendship between the Uyghurs and the Han Chinese…
